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Famous Quotes by Voltaire

Famous quotes by Voltaire - the pen name of the French political philosopher, historian, satirist, dramatist, essayist, and novelist Francois Marie Arouet. He was born in Paris, France on November 21, 1694. Voltaire's main publications were La Henriade, Siecle de Louis XIV, Candide and Zandig. He died on May 30, 1778.

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Animals have these advantages over man: they have no theologians to instruct them, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.


To forgive our enemies their virtues - that is a greater miracle.


Ideas are like beards: men do not have them until they grow up.


The husband who desires to surprise is often very much surprised himself.


The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.


When he who hears doesn't know what he who speaks means, and when he who speaks doesn't know what he himself means - that is philosophy.


Satire lies about literary men while they live, and eulogy lies about them when they die.


The superfluous: a very necessary thing.


In the great game of human life one begins by being a dupe and ends by being a rogue.


We use ideas merely to justify our evil, and speech merely to conceal our ideas.

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Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced - even a proverb is no proverb to you till your life has illustrated it - John Keats

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